An 18 track compilation album is set to raise funds for the charity MancSpirit, supporting their Creative Change Homeless Project. MANC MADE /// ACTS OF HOPE has been created and curated by Ben Guy of the band narcissus and brought to life by Manchester’s new record label 42’s Records. The album features native and adopted…
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre will play host to a series of plays and stories for a fast changing world over Spring and Summer 2018. The Spring/Summer 2018 season promises to celebrate great plays and stores which have stood the time of time, reimagining them for the 21st century. The programme, which opens with a brand-new…
Ben Batt to join Maxine Peake on stage The full cast has now been confirmed for the Royal Exchange Theatre’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire, designed by Fly Davis, running from 8 September to 15 October. Maxine Peake takes on the role of Williams’ fragile heroine Blanche DuBois, who, battling a gripping addiction, looks…
Last night we had the pleasure of going to watch one of Shakespeare’s most infamous plays of tragedy, loyalty, love, betrayal, murder and madness – Hamlet. In a production that would, in Shakespeare’s day, have been performed by an all-male cast, Maxine Peake gave an outstanding and impassioned performance in her title role, keeping alive…
In a bold re-imagining of Shakespeare’s most iconic work, Hamlet will open the Autumn/Winter 14/15 season on Thursday 11th September 2014. BAFTA nominated Maxine Peake (The Village, Hancock and Joan) will lead the cast in this stripped back, fresh and fast-paced production which reunites her with Royal Exchange Artistic Director Sarah Frankcom. Having had huge…
